What makes Elon Musk tick?

Business Daily

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News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk, the space pioneer and electric car guru, now ranks as one of the world's richest men, thanks to a surge in the value of shares in his company Tesla. In an interview from 2014, he tells the BBC's chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt what drives him to take on some of the world's most technologically challenging projects, and how he feels about the wealth he's accumulated over the years.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuel de Saragossa.
0:06.7	Coming up, what makes Elon Musk tick, not money, he says.
0:10.9	I don't have anything against the pursuit of wealth if it's done in sort of an ethical and good manner.
0:17.4	It's not my personal motivation.
0:19.7	Elon Musk now ranks as the world's richest man,
0:23.1	thanks to a surge in the price of shares in his electric car company, Tesla. To market, we dug out
0:28.6	an unbroadcast interview my colleague Justin Rowlatt did with the entrepreneur some years ago.
0:33.6	And it's quite revealing. I'm not a hardcore environmentalist in the sense that I don't think we should ever have emissions
0:38.9	or that everyone should be vegan.
0:40.7	I'm sort of of the mind that we should try to take care of the environment and have a good life,
0:45.2	not sort of be miserable and take care of the environment.
0:47.7	That's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.
0:53.9	Okay, we're recording.
0:55.4	Justin, can I have some level?
0:56.8	Yeah, I'll speak about this level probably.
0:58.7	Okay.
0:59.5	And Elon, can I have some love for you?
1:02.0	Level.
1:03.2	No, a bit more than that.
1:07.2	Sybilance.
1:08.1	The BBC's chief environment correspondent, Justin Rolat there, sitting down with Elon Musk in a BBC studio in London back in 2014.
1:16.8	We broadcast clips from the interview at the time, but with Elon Musk now shooting up the rankings of the Bloomberg billionaires index,
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